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~Barn~
Wed Jul 11th, 2007, 04:56 PM
So I checked out Who's Online (http://www.cosportbikeclub.org/forums/online.php?&order=desc&sort=username&pp=25&page=1), and in addition to the usual array of forum members and the handful of "guests" that we get, I see like 4 pages of "Yahoo! Slurp Spider" and even a "Google Spider".

I sure hope our forum expererience isn't getting proper-fucked by these things!

Ralph? Bob? Judges?

rforsythe
Wed Jul 11th, 2007, 05:01 PM
It's fine...

*GSXR~SNAIL*
Wed Jul 11th, 2007, 05:04 PM
So I checked out Who's Online (http://www.cosportbikeclub.org/forums/online.php?&order=desc&sort=username&pp=25&page=1), and in addition to the usual array of forum members and the handful of "guests" that we get, I see like 4 pages of "Yahoo! Slurp Spider" and even a "Google Spider".

I sure hope our forum expererience isn't getting proper-fucked by these things!

Ralph? Bob? Judges?


http://www.cosportbikeclub.org/forums/showthread.php?t=11867&highlight=slurp

My understanding is that they crawl through different sites on the web and feed information back to search engines like Yahoo or Google. I also think this site software, vBulletin, has allowed them for awhile, but just had them listed as "anonymous" before as opposed to actually seeing they are some kind of software driven crawler to find stuff to feed to search engines.

~Barn~
Wed Jul 11th, 2007, 05:15 PM
It's fine...

:spit:
You just reminded me of the one Iraqi press secretary who used to come on TV all the time and tell us how sweet everything was going for them.

http://www.hyperlogos.org/system/files/images/comical_ali.jpg

Bueller
Wed Jul 11th, 2007, 05:58 PM
one of the reasons I wouldn't put phone #'s of other personal info on the boards

rforsythe
Wed Jul 11th, 2007, 06:23 PM
Barn, it's nice to think I remind you of Chemical Ali. :lol:

"The Americans have not invaded our borders! Their troops are not in control of this forum! Saddam be blessed, he remains in control. Praise be to Allah, do not believe the propaganda."

~Barn~
Wed Jul 11th, 2007, 08:51 PM
I think Chemical Ali was actually a different dude. Either way though... this is your guy.

Bueller
Wed Jul 11th, 2007, 08:58 PM
http://home.comcast.net/~mra999/iim_deathstar.jpg

Ricky
Thu Jul 12th, 2007, 11:07 AM
I've been running a message board for the last 9 years, and we switched to vbulletin about 3 years ago, and this was one of our first problems. Why are there 60 yahoo spiders when there's only 2 or 3 google spiders. Ultimately we decided that yahoo was a waste of traffic, and we blocked yahoo from spidering our message board. It's a simple thing to do, and it has kept the yahoo spider away. Yahoo just seems to have a real problem when spidering vbulletin sites, and can't ever get enough of it.

Sortarican
Thu Jul 12th, 2007, 03:31 PM
.....You just reminded me of the one Iraqi press secretary who used to come on TV all the time and tell us how sweet everything was going for them...

:pointlaugh:
Only Barn could cover Arachnophobia and Iraqnophobia in one thread.